A close look at this fallen spruce tree raises questions underlying causes and tree health.
Foam or saliva-looking substance on seen on flowering plants like fireweed and yarrow.
Tribal member from St. Mary's, Alaska noticed this on her when she went back inside her home. Turns out it is an elm sawfly, Cimbex americana.
On our camping trip to Moab we saw these nests everywhere.
An unseasonable winter insect sighting in Newhalen.
Black insect never seen by a Yupiit of Andreafski Tribal member at his home in St. Mary's.
A resident of Seldovia reported an infestation of worms infesting an area of salmonberry brush and nettle.
This eye catching insect is the adult stonefly.
I saw an extreme amount of spittle bugs not only on grasses and plants but on flowers.
Our Mosquito Magnet trap filled in under a week. We normally empty it once a month or so.
"We had never before observed a species of the order Diptera, aside from the mosquitos present every year. Around the middle of September this year, however, there was a large influx of houseflies into our home."
Ants carrying white rice like objects out of their nest.
Red currant leaf consumption by something was observed by my supervisor while walking along a salmon stream.
Tribal member of St. Mary's finds the larva of a predaceous diving beetle.
"I am seeing spittlebugs deposits everywhere I look in the Sand Lake area."
Hikers on Kesugi Ridge observe a large abundance of Rusty Tussock Caterpillars all over cairns marking the trail from Coal Creek to Byre's Lake. They swarmed on the hiker's bodies and packs and from a distance covered structures to the point where they looked black.
A European Skipper butterfly is observed in Northwest BC, an introduced species and one of several stressors underlying insect declines.
Lymantria dispar dispar also known as spongy moth was observed in Waterloo Ontario to be in unusually large quantities during the summer of 2021.
European Honey Bee a.k.a Western Honey Bee (apis mellifera) spotted with 2 feet of snow still on the ground.
Mosquito populations may be down, but the gnats, no-see-ums, white sox and several other unidentified bugs were relentless.
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